Is Rand rejecting pension like his father?

I am under the assumption that Ron relinquished his entire pension and also possibly rejected his congressional health insurance. How accurate is this and has Rand followed suit in his father's footsteps?

The vast majority of congressional members and staffers get their insurance through the Washington, DC, exchange, known as DC Health Link. The exchange has a reputation for working well, in part because of its small, more manageable size, according to Alice Rivlin, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution's Center for Health Policy.

"We have Obamacare," he added. "It's terrible. My wife and I spend hours on the phone trying to get the insurance companies to pay for anything. We're just like every American -- very, very frustrated with the insurance system."

I am under the assumption that Ron relinquished his entire pension and also possibly rejected his congressional health insurance. How accurate is this and has Rand followed suit in his father's footsteps?

I don't remember hearing Ron reject health insurance. Ron did reject a pension. I would be surprised if Rand turned down a pension or health insurance. I don't actually understand why Ron wouldn't take a Congressional pension. It is part of their compensation and people in Congress don't make that much relative to the effort and grief it takes to become a member of Congress. I sure as hell would take a Congressional pension and I would vote myself a raise.

Rand became a Congressman much younger in his career than Ron did. Although he never told me for sure, I suspect he makes less money as a Senator than as an eye doc (which he isn't allowed to do anymore). I don't blame him for taking a pension.

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Rand became a Congressman much younger in his career than Ron did. Although he never told me for sure, I suspect he makes less money as a Senator than as an eye doc (which he isn't allowed to do anymore). I don't blame him for taking a pension.

Ron also made money from the books he wrote and sold. Estimates of his net worth range from $2 million to $5 million.

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Rand became a Congressman much younger in his career than Ron did. Although he never told me for sure, I suspect he makes less money as a Senator than as an eye doc (which he isn't allowed to do anymore). I don't blame him for taking a pension.

Ron was younger in age than Rand by nearly a decade when each started their political careers - how late did Rand start practicing optometry?

More on topic, I've been critical of Rand over the years, but this ranks low on the list of issues that rankle me. If this were one of the main issues of differentiation between Ron and Rand, I'd be over the moon.

Originally Posted by Ron Paul

Perhaps the most important lesson from Obamacare is that while liberty is lost incrementally, it cannot be regained incrementally. The federal leviathan continues its steady growth; sometimes boldly and sometimes quietly. Obamacare is just the latest example, but make no mistake: the statists are winning. So advocates of liberty must reject incremental approaches and fight boldly for bedrock principles.

I remember looking through an article on this 4 or 5 years back. He didn't strike me as someone who was great with his money. From what I remember he had a paid off house and a disproportionate amount of money in gold and Treasuries.